RANT
#1, Spring 1993

PO Box 6872 Yorkville Station
New York NY, 10128

56 pp., $3.95

Appropriately,
RANT contains tirades about life, love, and politics.
No one will agree with all the points of view expressed
herein--making converts is not the point; eloquent,
soapbox bitching with momentum is the point. Twisted
minds are not shunned. This issue reprints a section
of Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell"--some quotations
illustrate Vitale's editorial ethic: "I have swallowed
a monstrous dose of poison. Thrice blessed be the
counsel that came to me!... The violence of the venom
twists my limbs, deforms and prostrates me. How nicely
I burn. Go to it, demon!" Some of the more contemporary
tirades address grocery store clerk rudeness, waiting
for results of AIDS tests, and obesity.--Mike Gill